"A filthy, uproarious, outrageous novel from the brilliant and twisted mind of John Waters"--

"From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of an unusually complicated contract killer--the perfectly sympathetic antihero--that is, as well, an edgy, almost lyrical meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder. He works for Oslo's...

"This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name--Musa--and...

Killed in action. That's the official story on the Suicide Squad, the crack team of the world's most dangerous super-villains assembled to do the jobs too dirty for the good guys to handle. Also known as Task Force X, they've been X'ed out, leaving their minder and master, Amanda Waller, behind to pick up the pieces. At least that's what they want you to believe. Thanks to Harley Quinn's secret contact on the outside, the Squad has faked their deaths,...

Presents the first two appearances of the author's antihero, Tom Ripley, as he travels to Europe to convince a rich man's son to return home, and establishes himself on the continent with a new identity, and, twenty years later, as a seemingly respectable man married to an heiress.